On 8 August 2017 at 20:01, Luigi Toscano <[email protected]> wrote: > Can rocket.chat be bridged too? If not, promoting it would create another > island.
With Brooklyn, you can create n-ways bridges between Rocket.chat, IRC, Telegram and possibly many more. All of this while handling attachment support, replies, and other nifty features where the protocol supports them (or falling back to the best support possible - e.g. if I send an image on Telegram you would see a URL on IRC to download the image). Since Matrix supports watching IRC, this means that we could in theory keep the four systems together with some level of interoperability, especially during a transition phase. I am not sure we really want to do this though. Now, my personal opionion - Rocket.chat has been a blood bath for WikiToLearn (most newbies are there, most old-timers are on Telegram, and they communicate through bridges, we lost several people in the migration), but in spite of this I still consider myself in favor of switching to it, for a few reasons. The problem is that all tools have their big drawbacks, and we need to keep using communication methods which are used by the rest of the world, to lower the access barrier for new contributors, and for leveraging on tools created by others. Several software compete in this arena: Mattermost, Rocket.Chat and Matrix are some of the big contenders. Matrix is a great idea but its federated nature give it a very confusing feeling for a newcomer. I understand that it needs to be easy for people to join our communication channels, but for this usecase I prefer supporting federated logins (so that you get one-click registrations with already existing accounts) to the full federation of the protocol. But the bigger reason for which I think that RC will be our best bet, is that several big teams (e.g. KDAB) are migrating to Rocket.chat, which means that even if the software is definitely perfectible (to say the least), it's gravitating towards critical mass. I believe that we will only solve this problem when, no matter what underlying technologies we choose, we will be able to provide a user experience as nice as Telegram with a simple server, hosted by us, which allows for federated login. And with a nice interface it can be actually usable. Vasudha and I are working on Ruqola to solve exactly this problem with Rocket.Chat, creating a great mobile client in the meantime. I am not sure this will be the definitive server, but this is something we want to try. Anyone is welcome to help us in this regard. Bye, -Riccardo -- Pace Peace Paix Paz Frieden Pax Pokój Friður Fred Béke Heddwch Hasiti Lapé Hetep Malu Mир Wolakota Santiphap Irini Peoch שלום Shanti Vrede Baris Rój Mír Taika Rongo Sulh Mir Py'guapy 평화 和平
